Northern Ireland- north of Belfast

We took a day tour trip north of Belfast to Giants Causeway and a few other places. It was nice to get out into the country of Northern Ireland and see it's beauty. Giant's Causeway was formed by multiple volcanos millions of years ago, but it is more fun to believe in the legends that they tell you. We were so lucky to have absolutely amazing, uncharacteristically sunny weather for the entire time we were in Northern Ireland.  We took a packed lunch and had a lovely picnic on the weird rock formations. Such a lovely day!

One of the Giant's Causeway legends:

Finn Mac Cool, an Irish Giant lived on an Antrim headland and one day when going about his daily business a Scottish Giant named Fingal began to shout insults and hurl abuse from across the channel. In anger Finn lifted a clod of earth and threw it at the giant as a challenge, the earth landed in the sea.
Fingal retaliated with a rock thrown back at Finn and shouted that Finn was lucky that he wasn't a strong swimmer or he would have made sure he could never fight again.
Finn was enraged and began lifting huge clumps of earth from the shore, throwing them so as to make a pathway for the Scottish giant to come and face him. However by the time he finished making the crossing he had not slept for a week and so instead devised a cunning plan to fool the Scot.
Finn diguised himself as a baby in a cot and when his adversary came to face him Finn's wife told the Giant that Finn was away but showed him his son sleeping in the cradle. The Scottish giant became apprehensive, for if the son was so huge, what size would the father be?
In his haste to escape Fingal sped back along the causeway Finn had built, tearing it up as he went. He is said to have fled to a cave on Staffa which is to this day named 'Fingal's Cave'.

This is one of Finn's boots. This is how they know how tall he was! :)

We had a photo stop for this castle. 13th century Dunluce Castle

I think that my favorite stop of the tour was the Carrick-a-rede Rope Bridge. This bridge was build many a moons ago by salmon fisherman. Apparently they needed to get over to the island to get the salmon. It hung about 25 meters above sea level and waved and bounced in the wind as you cross. The island really created a good view and I wish that we could have spent more time there exploring the area. 

This picture was taken on the island that you had to cross the bridge to get to. 

God's creation is absolutely amazing. It's fun to sit in wonder...

I guess I won't be bungy jumping over here, so I needed something a little daring to do!